Indigenous Visioning Circle Resources
Books**
Bigelow, Bill and Bob Peterson, editors. (1998) Rethinking Columbus – The Next 500 Years . Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools
Brown, Dee. (1970) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – An Indian History of the American West . New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company
Michael F. Brown. (2003) Who Owns Native Culture? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Deloria Jr, Vine. (1985) Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties – An Indian Declaration of Independence . Austin, TX: University of Texas Press
Deloria Jr, Vine. (1969) Custer Died for Your Sins. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company
*Heinrichs, Steve, editor. (2013) Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry. Waterloo, ON: Herald Press
*King, Thomas. (2013) The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press
LaDuke, Winona. (1999) All Our Relations – Native Struggles for Land and Life . Cambridge, MA: South End Press
Mander, Jerry. (1991) In the Absence of the Sacred - The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations (Chapters 11 – 13 and Chapters 15 – 18). San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books
McCaslin , Wanda D., editor. (2005) Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways . St. Paul, MN: Living Justice Press
Stannard, David E. (1992) American Holocaust – The Conquest of the New World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
Tinker, George E. (2008) American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books
Tinker, George E. (1993) Missionary Conquest – The Gospel and Native American Genocide. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press
*study guide included/available **All books available from MCC Central States lending library: (316)-283-2720, [email protected] Online resources (search by title)
Websites:
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery - A movement of Anabaptist people of faith Website coordinating the efforts of the (Mennonite) Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition – including video (see below), educational resources and timeline.
Myth Perceptions Website created by Mennonite Central Committee Canada Indigenous Work program to deconstruct stereotypes, myths and untruths about Indigenous Peoples.
Tribal Nations Maps The most comprehensive source for maps of pre-contact and at-contact Native North America. These maps use Tribal Nation’s original Indigenous names for themselves, and show where Tribes were just before contact with outsiders.
The Invasion of America - How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World Interactive maps show how the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America's indigenous peoples through treaties and executive orders between 1776 and 1887. It also contains present-day federal Indian reservations.
Indian Country Diaries PBS Indians today face new challenges to their identity, sovereignty, pocketbooks, health and preservation of culture and families. This site includes lesson plans, discussion starters, history, videos and resources.
Videos:
*Doctrine of Discovery: In the Name of Christ (dofdmenno.org & YouTube) - 43:00 Learn about the history of the Doctrine of Discovery, its basis in Christian theology, it effects on Indigenous Peoples today, and how we might start to undo it.
Chief Oren Lyons on Doctrine of Discovery (YouTube) - 14:44 Chief Oren Lyons reveals how the Doctrine of Discovery came about in 1493 after Columbus's return to Europe and how it was inserted into US policy.
Mennonites and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) (YouTube) - 17:08 Produced by Mennonite Church Canada, this video reflects on Mennonite participation in the residential school system and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process in Canada.
Dawes Act 1887 (Hist 102) (YouTube) - 9:09 A clip from THE WEST, an eight-part PBS documentary series, on the 1887 Dawes Act, its promoters and the devastating effects on Native American Nations.
Articles:
“Addressing the colonial legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery” by Harley Eagle Published in Intersections: MCC theory & practice quarterly, Winter 2014: Legacies of colonialism
*American Indian Boarding Schools - Saginaw Chippewa An exploration of global ethnic and cultural cleansing focused on the history of American Indian boarding schools. By The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways in Mount Pleasant, MI.
*study guide included/available